Chapter 3
Alliance Progression
Karino's POV:
I jumped to within several feet of the adjucha and saw that he had spikes covering most of his body. He shot a cero at me from the spikes on his chest, so I narrowly dodged it and threw the kunai at the place he shot the cero from. The kunai exploded soon after impact and he was thrust back into a nearby building. He got up and flashed to the roof of the building next to him. "I'll destroy you karino!" he exclaimed. Then from out of nowhere a rip appeared next to him. From it came a pale skinned man that had black hair, piercing green eyes, a hole at the center of his collar bone, and a mask covering half of his head with a horn sticking out of it. He seemed to be wearing clothing that is similar to mine. "Aisen-sama requests your presence." With that the man pulls the adjucha through the rip, but as he does so he glares at me with disgust. "Trash." He says. The rip closes before I manage to get close to it, so I go to see what happened to the other two. On my way I saw the teen with orange hair coming at me with what seemed to be an abnormally large cleaver. What's he doing here… and he's wearing a black kimono, huh. "Hey! I remember you from the…" before I could finish he swung his sword at me, so I put my kunai up to block it. "What the hell! Why are you attacking me?" "First tell me why you're here, Arrancar!" he responded. Then the girl with black hair showed up and punched him on the head. "Gah! What was that for?!" "Idiot!" she retorted. "You don't just go charging into battle before thinking. Look at him, he doesn't have a mask, and he doesn't even have a hole! What makes you think that he's an Arrancar?" "Well… uhh." She then turns to me and punches me on the head as well. "And you! Why the hell are you wearing that in the middle of the soul society?" "Oh… I just never really like wearing anything el…" "Well, then getting attacked is your own fault if you're going to look like the enemy." She interjected. "Soo… my name's Karino, what are your names?" I asked. After greetings, we exchanged information on our situations. And I described the circumstances that led me into the soul society. Later a meeting was held to sort out what had happened. I went along with Ichigo and Rukia to the meeting hall. When we got there the meeting was just starting. "Take your places." Yammamoto said. We did so as the meeting continued. "We know that two of the adjuchas were taken care of by Ichigo, Rukia, and Renji…" Yammamoto said. "…but what happened to the third one?" "I fought off that one." I said. "But before I finished him off, a garganta opened and a man came out proceeding to abduct the adjucha before I could do anything." I described the man to them and they seemed to know who I was talking about. "He and another Arrancar showed up in karakura two weeks ago." Ichigo said. "They seem to be getting more active." Toshiro added. "So is somebody planning some kind of attack against you guys?" I asked. Yammamoto explained the circumstances surrounding Aizen and the espada/arrancar he had made. "Oh, so that's why you all were so suspicious of me… on another note, I should probably mention that I managed to forge a zanpakuto for my encounter with the adjucha." I stated. "How delightful!" I looked over to Mayuri, confused and disturbed, about how he just commented, and then stepped a few paces back shocked because I had not noticed how close I'd been standing the whole time. "GAAH! What the hell is with the smile on your face?! You look like a fucking demonic elf or something… and the headwear doesn't help a bit." Mayuri responded to that with silence as the meeting continued. He consistently stared at me for the rest of the meeting. So near the end of the meeting it was decided that Rukia and Ichigo will go back to the world of the living in three days. Since I couldn't bare the thought of risking another encounter with Mayuri, I volunteered to go as well. After the meeting and on the way back to the barrack that I was staying at, I was caught off guard by Nemu with a sharp syringe to my arm. The needle part slipped through the shield barely enough to penetrate my skin. I immediately started to fade out from whatever was in the syringe, and as a last resort I engaged an emergency protocol on my shield that I was able to implement because of the q-computer's purity. My body fell unconscious, but I was able to keep a portion of conscious activity running through my q-computer. I could only read the aetherical signatures around me, but I was able to ascertain that Nemu was carrying me awkwardly over her shoulder to Mayuri's laboratory. After a while of Mayuri trying to deactivate the shield I started to regain consciousness. The first thing I noticed was how eerie it was inside the lab. "Whoa! You are one crazy bastard!" when I said this he seemed to completely ignore it. "You must tell me what the limitations of your shield are. It's quite difficult." He said, proceeding to activate some sort of particle destabilizing contraption. "Well… the shield I would've been using from the old q-computer would've had the limitations I mentioned. But I'm using an updated protocol through the one I have now which is pure quartz. Since the old q-computer wasn't pure, engaging this would've been 97% likely to cause a malfunction that would prevent the shield from ever disengaging. So the way I have it now is that absolutely nothing can break the shields stability. And you can be assured that I wouldn't be telling you anything whatsoever about its functions if I wasn't at least 98% sure of its accuracy, and that it wouldn't come to an advantage of yours in the near future." After saying that I continued to lie on what seemed to be an operating table. I checked out some of the data from inside the room for over fifteen minuets before Mayuri said anything. "You can't teleport at all while doing that, can you?" he said with a smirk across his face. "I guess it is pretty obvious, isn't it? Anyway, there are other methods for getting out of here with this protocol active…" with that I adjusted a few settings, then phased through the restraints… and then the table. I made swimming motions to get a few feet away from the table and then stabilized the field a bit more so that I could stand on the floor. Meanwhile both Mayuri and Nemu did things from swiping at me, to firing things at me to try and stop me. "It's a good thing that the density of the material in your floor is denser then you, as well as most of your equipment and walls." As I left the room through one of the walls, the disconcerted look across Mayuri's face looked ridiculous enough, with his face paints, to cause me to laugh a little bit. Though this just made Mayuri look more furious than disconcerted, so I proceeded to hastily exit the department of research and development. On the way out I passed by a number of questionable experiments. Hah! More like the clinic of ridiculous atrocities. By the time I reached my barrack, I found out that I had been trapped for at least a day and a half. This, at best, would only leave me with a day to pack and get any last minuet experiments out of the way before I had to leave for the world of the living with everyone else. And I'm definitely not staying another day here with the looming threat of abduction by Mayuri Kurosutchi… or his assistant. Anyway, at my barrack I got the q-computer from the house and deconstructed the table and chairs. Then, I increased the density of the materials so I could fit them in a pocket. I found that it's too heavy for that to be efficient, so I made some of it into a simple backpack and stuffed the rest of the material inside of it. I put the backpack on and realized that the emergency shield is still on because the straps extended a few inches from my chest when it was strapped on. So I turned it back to its normal settings and continued to prepare for experiments. When I was about to go outside and get more dirt, a knock came from the door. I guess that means no experiments today. Oh well. I make a looking hole through the door and see that it's Ichigo and Rukia. I opened the door and greet them. "Hey, we came by yesterday but you didn't seem to be home." Ichigo said. "Well, I was a captive at Kurosutchi's lab ever since the meeting the other night." "Holy crap! Did he do anything to you?" Ichigo asked. "No, I was able to abate his efforts with an emergency shield I initiated before the drug that Nemu injected into me took effect. Aside from those situations, would you mind telling me where you two go to school?" "Karakura high, why?" Rukia responded. "Well it's just, that would explain why weird stuff seems to happen so frequently." "So, do you know were you're going to be staying when we get back to the world of the living?" Ichigo asked. "Well, my laboratory was probably left a crater by the accident, so I'm going to have to rebuild that some other time. But I do have a house of my own that should be in-tact. Heck, you two could come over and visit sometime. I might be able to whip up something you could use during a battle or even on a day to day basis. Not to mention that it could be mutually beneficial if you were to be okay with me analyzing your aetherical composition…or, spirit energy… so as to see what findings I can discover. Though I hate intellectuals like Mayuri who abrasively conduct experiments regardless of the effects on the patients, and thusly resort to abducting their test subjects so you don't have to worry about me abducting you… oh, uh, sorry for rambling like that. I tend to get ahead of myself when I'm contemplating things during discussion." "Uh…That's okay." Ichigo said. "Aw man! I forgot that I got rid of the seats and table. I'll go and get them and some tea okay?" "I'd like coffee." Ichigo said. "Oh, sure." so I went to the yard to get a lot of dirt. Then I took the lump from my backpack and made three seat mats and a short table. I constructed three cups of tea and a teapot, some coffee, and rice balls, and then put everything on the table. Rukia and Ichigo seemed weary of getting near the stuff I had just constructed before their eyes. "Don't worry it's a molecular replica from what I took the molecular scans of. It doesn't taste any different and it's even warm from the atomic reconstruction. In short it doesn't have any detrimental effects other than the ones that would exist with the normally produced ones. And the taste remains unchanged." They seemed to be calmed a bit by what I said but were still hesitant when drinking the liquids. We talked a bit about situations in our lives and what kind of things we've seen in karakura. The next day, everyone was gathered in front of a set of doors that had light peering out of it. Welp, here it goes. After a few more people showed up Rukia, Ichigo, and I, headed through the doors into the precipice world. Huh, looks pretty damp. We rushed all the way to the exit and came out at a hillside near a soccer field. "Well I'll see you two some other time I guess." I waved goodbye and then teleported back to my house. I noticed that there was caution tape covering my door. Hmm. Well I'll just sort this out tomorrow. Then I rearranged a couple of the unused rooms in my house to prepare for any future experiments in them. I heard an alert coming from my q-computer. "Aww crap! I forgot that the aether transmitter was demolished with the laboratory. Time for a new project." So I cracked my knuckles and went up into the attic to construct an aether transmitter for the rest of the day. Once I was nearly finished, an innovative idea came to mind. Since these circumstances are extraneous enough, I might not get caught or get in trouble for testing free energy with these people. So ignoring what time it was, I headed out for my car soon realizing that it was left at the laboratory. "Aww, damn it!" So instead of driving I decide to teleport over to karakura high… "Wait a second! I don't even know where Ichigo's house is." Just then I realized that in my sleep deprived haste, I completely neglected to finish the transmitter. I looked down at the ground and saw that I should go home before my reserves are completely dried out. But as I was about to do that my shield became inactive and my q-computer started hibernation so its information would stay in tact. The repercussions of this were that I got knocked unconscious by falling down onto the concrete only a few kilometers away from karakura high.
Normal POV:
The next day after school ended, Ichigo, uryu, Orihime, and Rukia were walking to the park when they happened upon Karino. He was strewn along the side of a building and had his leg underneath of him in a seemingly uncomfortable position. Once Ichigo recognizes him he drew the others attention to him. "Hey, that's Karino!" "Is he okay?" Orihime asked. "He may not even be alive." Uryu stated. Then Kon poked out of Ichigo's backpack and went over near his head. Rukia walked up and kicked karino, waited a few seconds and then kicked a lot harder. Karino woke abruptly by the second kick. "Ah! What the…" Karino sat up, and picked up his limp leg. "Oh, holy shit! I think it's broken." "Let me help!" Orihime says, proceeding to use her healing abilities. Seeing this, Karino's eyes widen "Hmm..." "All better now." Orihime said. "Hey can you do that again?" Karino asked. "But you're not hurt…" "But you would do that again if I was hurt right?" Karino interrupted. "Well…" before Orihime could continue, Karino brought out his AAP and shot a round of antimatter on the same leg. Leaving a chunk of flesh missing. "Do it again please." Karino asked. But everyone's reaction of horror left only sounds of discontent. Karino chuckled "Oh… I guess that was pretty drastic huh?" then Rukia slapped karino on the back of the head "IDIOT!" she said. "What are you thinking?!" Orihime came up again to heal the wound. "Oh hold up a second…" Karino said while bringing out his q-computer. "But… doesn't it hurt?" Orihime asked. "Well… I've had worse, but it would be stupid of me not to analyze your healing methods. The possible benefits of the reproduction of that type of complicated process are potentially limitless for any living creature." Orihime then healed the wound with a concerned look on her face. After she finished karino got up and flexed his leg while the crew backed away a bit. Karino looked up at them, changing his expression from relief to guilt. "Uh… sorry for getting extreme like that. but with as complicated a procedure as healing is, I've only managed to emulate simple healing procedures like stitching, or…well that's mainly it actually. But with this info, I think I may be able to unravel techniques for vastly more complicated procedures. I really think this will be able to help a lot of people. Though, I do apologize for the shock I caused for you. I never meant to freak you guys out." After that, they all continued to the park and karino came along.
Karino's POV:
It was starting to get dark when I realized that I hadn't even finished the transmitter yet. At this time we were all playing still talking to each other. I went next to Ichigo to talk to him "Hey, I have to go. I just realized that I still haven't finished the new aether transmitter. But I would like to know where you live because I might be able to equip your house with free power." After elaborating what I said, Ichigo willingly gave me quick directions to his house. I then thanked him and headed off for my house. I need to remember to sleep next time… even though I've made a lot of progress today. Once I reached my house I saw an unfamiliar black Mercedes in the driveway. Hm, I probably should peer inside. I reached the kitchen window and crouched to peer in at the bottom. I saw that there were two men inside walking around looking through absolutely everything. Maybe my absence led to more serious repercussions than I had thought. Instead of going inside I went in the direction of Ichigo's house. Maybe it's for the best. At least now I don't have to worry anymore about being threatened into not releasing my inventions to the public. Though I should probably lay low for a couple of months… or years. On the way to Ichigo's, I contemplated various methods of constructing an underground base. I decided that I would ask for the permission of his father to build one underneath of their house if Ichigo wasn't home. When I reached Ichigo's house it was almost completely dark outside. I walked up and knocked on the door, it then swung open "HELLLOO ICHIGOOO!" Ichigo's dad flew out and kicked me square in the face, and I landed on my back a little bit away from the door. "Oops! Sorry, I thought you were my idiot son. I can take care of that for you inside." At first I didn't realize what he meant, but then I felt the blood running down my lip. "Oh, thanks." I said as I got up. What a peculiar greeting. I sympathize for Ichigo having to deal with this. He brought me inside and told me to sit for a second so I sat in a chair in the dining room. He came back with a cloth rapped around a few ice cubes to put on my nose and then sat in a chair next to me. "My name's Isshin Kurosaki, what's yours?" he asked. "Oh, my name's Karino Tomora." I responded. "So, what are you here for?" I turned to him and got to the point "listen, I have a proposition to supply you with free electricity if you let me take residence underneath your house inside a lab that I will be able to construct within ten to fifteen minuets. This will in no way be detrimental to you and is completely legal." Wait… I guess if caught, whatever person who didn't want this open to the public when I was working at the lab would take action. But I am considered to be dead so I should be safe on that. "Are you even sure you can do all that?" Isshin asked "well… approximately 99.67 percent sure. Just so you know, here's a demonstration…" I took out a marble sized chunk of material and proceeded to float it half-way between me and Isshin. Then I separated it into a plethora of sand sized particulates, which I then reassembled to take the shape of a strand of DNA. Isshin was amazed by this and eagerly agreed to allow me to take residence. "oh and do you have and attic where I can place the aether transmitter?" he led me up to a cramped attic "perfect!" so I went outside and gathered dirt from up against the back-side of the house to fill my pockets. Then I went back up to the attic to reconstruct the dirt. "Wait…" Isshin said. "Couldn't you do the same thing that you did with the marble to the dirt?" "Well, yes. But I want to conserve my aether reserves since my other transmitter was destroyed and my q-computer uses more aetherical discharge for reconstruction and levitation than most any other function." So I proceeded to repeat going outside and coming back in several times before I was finished with construction. I then initiated the pulsing sequence for the transmitter and, using the aether transmitted by it, constructed a q-computer of high purity to run stabilization and protection routines for the transmitter. I then went downstairs and found Isshin. "I'm almost finished; I just need to know where your power comes through from outside." He led me to the power box outside and I opened it. I should probably do this since the key entities concerned about my free energy would've been electrical companies. "…I just need a few minuets to wire this correctly so that the excess amperage you receive will be sent onto the power-grid so the electrical company pays you for the kilowatt-hours sent back through the grid." "Is that even legal?" Isshin asked. "Yup. It's the same deal if you have solar panels and they're producing more electricity than you're using at the time. But with this it will always have some excess amperage since its just one house, so I have to wire this so that the feed coming in to it isn't so much that it damages the immediate electrical grid too easily." He didn't seem to completely understand, but that isn't all that unusual, so I just continued working. Once I wired the box properly I took some more dirt to construct a direct receiver. I then made a secret compartment behind the box to place the receiver, and I connected it to the houses main circuit. Once I was done Isshin seemed to be really grateful. I explained that all I really needed was the space underground but after he offered me several different things… like his son *shudders*… in compensation for what I'd done, I conceded to occasionally eat dinners with them. Though, I explained that I had far too much to do for me to come that night. So we said our goodbyes, and I proceeded to where I had been collecting the dirt from the back of the house. I constructed an underground fortification in the shape of a pyramid made up of about twenty-five large rooms and no entrance to prevent trespassers. The top room I made specifically a monitoring station for various things (which now include hollows), and afterwards I headed to sleep for the night. I woke up at about noon and decided to analyze what data I'd gathered from Orihime's healing ability. I pulled up the data and immediately got exited. "Amazing! Hmm, I wonder if…" I shot a round of antimatter at the desk next to me and quickly wrote a protocol to mimic Orihime's ability. I then used it on the gaping hole in the desk, and before my eye's it began to reform. Wow. I knew the powers of quantum reversal would be drastic, but this is exemplary… just then I got an alert from my q-computer about high decibel readings in the Kurosaki residence. I brought up the visual data and saw that it was just Ichigo quarrelling with the talking stuffed lion. "Heh, interesting people." *sighs* through all that I accomplished I'd struck a point of boredom. I sat for a moment contemplating what I'd done and what happened through the week. "Oh!" I looked down at where my zanpakuto was and noticed that even though I still felt as if it were at my side, I couldn't see it. Interesting. I took my q-computer and analyzed the area around my waist. It seems as though it only resides aetherically, I wonder how I can fix that. So I spent the next few hours scanning and calculating just to find out that I couldn't physically manifest it. So I decided to invent a chamber that would allow me to be transferred to an aetherical state. I was almost done by ten-o-clock so I went to sleep and woke up in the morning to finish it. When I got up I started some trials with the facsimile of Orihime's ability. I procured a number of minimal injuries to verify that it would work. I then proceeded to finish the chamber for the rest of the day. It was night by the time I had managed to complete it and run some diagnostics when a powerful feeling came over me and an alert sounded from my q-computer for a massively powerful arranchar nearby. "Ugh! Why now." So I stopped and flashed outside to scan for Ichigo and Rukia. I found that they were near the outskirts of karakura town. I also found that five of the soul reapers from the seriate were also fighting Arrancars around karakura. So I quickly headed over to Ichigo's location to see if I could help. When I was close to Ichigo's fight, I happened across Rukia and her gigai. Rukia was strewn across the ground with severe wounds, and her gigai was inhabited by a soul candy and looking after Rukia. I decided to stop for a second and heal her wounds before I went closer to Ichigo's battle.
A/N: I'd appreciate it if every reader reviews this story so I can get a clear picture as to the opinion of the public audience. Also I need the most reviews possible to have any hope of decent accuracy, thanks.
Also I suppose that the part of this chapter where Isshin offers Ichigo to Karino could use some clarification. First, it would probably best help to know that I wasn't attempting to portray that Isshin was seriously offering Ichigo. The offering was more of a joke than anything else since it was evident to Isshin that Karino wasn't willing to accept any extra form of payment.
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